Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 16:51:43 +0000 From: Dominic Marks <dominic_marks@btinternet.com> To: sos@freebsd.dk, Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE Prefetch Mode... (was: VIA crashes) Message-ID: <E16OLvq-0007Uw-00@rhenium> In-Reply-To: <200201091635.g09GZdm98854@freebsd.dk> References: <200201091635.g09GZdm98854@freebsd.dk>
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On Wednesday 09 January 2002 4:35 pm, Søren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Nils Holland wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 01:16:32PM -0800, Matthew Dillon stood up and spoke: > > > I'm CCing Soren to make sure he sees this. > > > > > > This is good news! > > > > It indeed is! However, I'm doing some more testing before I say > > that disabling IDE Prefetch along with using Soren's 686B patch > > is the ultimate solution. > > Hmm, the BIOS must do more that just toggle prefetch, since the ATA > driver explicitly turns *on* prefetch :) Out of interest - is there a sysctl turnable which can be used to modify this behaviour as there is for write caching? <snip/> -- Dominic To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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